Craigburn House Stirling

Travelled from Fife over to West of Scotland and Hamilton, just south of Glasgow.
Watched the game which Hamilton won 2-1 and really enjoyed the atmosphere. On the radio on the way home though learned that there had been fighting in the players tunnel after the game and the Police had been involved. Boys will be boys!!
Sat with the Hearts fans ... not happy! Team were poor and they can see their club is in decline!

... em back! Now that's what I call a family!" Try thinking of this in a Scottish accent.

A small glass of Glenmorangie and then off for dinner. Haggis, neeps (Turnips mashed) and Tatties (Spuds mashed). Very nice and very filling.

Home to meet the family. A great welcome, some more Scottich accents and off to the Motherwell version of an RSL for a sing along. Some ...

... we were drinking our coffee we decided to do a quick sketch of the train station. As we were sitting there a nice older man in a kilt caught a glance of what we were doing and invited himself over. He pulled up a chair and started to explain to us that he used to teach architectural drawing classes and now is a professional artist who gives presentations on his work. He asked to take a look of each of our sketchbooks and gave ...

... Apart from that can recommend Relais FRANCESCA in Piano di Sorrento.A super small hotel with parking -important in that area!Also close to train station for Sorrento,Pompeiietc.
P.S.DON'T plan to eat outside Pompeii site-take something with you or use cafe inside.
Cheers
John

... phones through to the AA and books a transporter to take me back to take me back to Nottingham (East Leake).

Tow truck 1, turns up at 11:50 to take me on the first leg of the journey home from Fort William to Stirling. This takes approx 3 hours and I get dropped at Stirling service station where I am supposed to be met by the next tow truck. It takes about an hour for the next truck to turn up. Which was arranged for 14:30

... the castle. We purchased our ticket and headed inside the walls. The first area we viewed was called the Bowling Green. The gardens were beautiful with all the flowers. We walked through the small exhibition that explained some history of the castle. Then we walked to the top of the wall and, again, beautiful scenery to behold. We continued through the courtyard looking at the buildings. We were disappointed to find ...

... Edinburgh I highly recommend you stay at 23 Mayfield.
We drove to Sterling to see the castle. It was awesome! It definitely rivals Edinburgh Castle. It sits on top of this huge volcanic rock. Basically, anyone wanting to control Central Scotland would have to pass through Sterling, so you can imagine the importance of this location for the Scots. The castle has been attacked at least 16 times!There were so many crazy passageways and nooks and crannies. The ...

... paranoid about sticking my memory cards into dodgy looking computers in internet cafés... just in case.

But we shall see.

At the moment I am feeling VERY disorganised (no change there...) and getting slightly panicky about the fact that my passport STILL hasn't arrived back from the embassy of Mali in Belgium (but apparently there's a mysterious package waiting for me at the post office, so hopefully that's ...

... week. For some odd reason or other, some of the girls were comparing how hairy their arms were. Then they noticed me and determined I had the hairiest arms of everyone. So we had to see if I had hairer legs than Lee, who previously was the hairiest man in SUDS. Well, I clearly am a werewolf, cause he had no chance of beating me in this strange beauty contest. So someone (I think it was Jon or John) dubbed me the 'American Werewolf in Stirling'. Fitting title ...

... been in the same position 400 years earlier for the crowning of Mary, Queen of the Scots. We wondered down through the castle's remarkably beautiful cemetery to another promontory hill where we marveled at the view that upper class Scots enjoyed centuries before overlooking battles between warring clans. From our vantage point we could see across the valley to the Wallace Monument and envy the lucky visitors who made it into the tower before it closed. The monument to ...